Labor History - 32: Women Form Own Unions

Labor History - 32: Women Form Own Unions

Fred Wright

James Lerner

12-Jul-71

Labor--United States--History; Working women; Women--Suffrage--Pennsylvania; Women's rights--Pennsylvania; Wright, Fred, 1907-1984; United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America; UE (United Electrical); Labor union

This panel is part of a comic strip created by Fred Wright, staff cartoonist for the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE). Wright gives context in the strip to the fact that labor leaders supported the women's suffrage movement because they believed it would help them win votes going forward, not necessarily because they truly believed women deserved the right to vote. It also mentions that at the 1868 National Labor Union meeting, women's union delegates were seated despite opposition, and a walkout was threatened if Elizabeth Cady Stanton was not allowed to be seated at the convention.

Fred Wright Papers, 1953-1986

English

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